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Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2022
Japan considering easing weapons export rules to prop up defense industry
Details of the planned revision will be included in a basic policy for economic and fiscal management to be finalized by the government in June.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 2, 2022
Violence erupts at May Day protests in Paris as marchers criticize re-elected Macron
Thousands of people joined May Day marches across France, calling for salary increases and for Macron to drop his plan to raise the retirement age.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2022
Amazon fired and disparaged him. Then he started a labor union.
Christian Smalls, an upstart labor leader hoping to unionize Amazon facilities in Staten Island, New York, has taken on an aggressive strategy against the e-commerce giant.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 11, 2022
Amazon is focus of push to curb ‘rank-and-yank’ worker ratings
A proposed law in the e-commerce giant's home state of Washington could make it harder for companies to terminate workers without explaining why.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2022
Google Fiber staff seek union vote and direct negotiations with Alphabet
At stake is whether Alphabet should be considered the boss of its global army of 'temps, vendors, and contractors,” which now comprises most of its workforce.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 23, 2021
Thai prisoners forced to make fishing nets under threat of violence
Jails around the country are using inmates to fulfill high-value contracts with Thai manufacturers, including one that exports nets to the United States.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2021
Southeast Asia’s migrant labor dilemma
High-income countries are trying to lure foreign workers from emerging Asian economies as part of their national recovery plans, creating new challenges for global labor migration.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 16, 2021
Tokyo and Canberra quietly reach a major security milestone
Japan and Australia reached a major milestone in their security relationship when, for the first time ever, the SDF executed an 'asset protection' mission with a non-U.S. military unit.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2021
Hong Kong’s colonial-era sedition laws are back
The use of sedition laws also implies that Hong Kong society will be further placed under surveillance with the integration of the new national security law along with other draconian rules.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2021
Japan’s newfound boldness on defending Taiwan
Japan's increasing concern with China's intimidation of its neighbors has triggered a shift toward a greater willingness to publicly align its national interests with the security of Taiwan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 31, 2021
U.S. tiremaker Goodyear faces allegations of labor abuse in Malaysia
The tire-maker made wrongful salary deductions, required excessive hours and denied workers full access to their passports, according to officials and former and current staffers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 20, 2021
At a Malaysian company's dorm, an audit gave the all-clear. Others alleged slavery.
These contrasting conclusions highlight little-known flaws in global efforts to monitor labor conditions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2021
Who helps pay Amazon’s low-wage workers? Americans do.
Amazon can afford to lift its workers out of poverty, so why does it rely on taxpayers to fill in the blanks?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 5, 2021
A post-COVID labor revival?
As millions of people actively seek work in 2021, many will find that employers increasingly have the upper hand, particularly in the United States.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 13, 2020
Japan's top court backs no bonus payment for employee on hourly wage
The Supreme Court ruled that treating an employee on a short-term contract with an hourly wage differently to a regular employee was not unreasonable.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Aug 21, 2020
Foreign trainees in Hiroshima face illegal hours and unpaid overtime
Fewer Japanese people want to work in sewing jobs, one industry insider said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2020
China asks Japan to maintain 'exclusively defense-oriented' policy
China on Wednesday asked Japan to maintain its "exclusively defense-oriented" policy under the war-renouncing Constitution, as some Japanese ruling lawmakers have called for Tokyo to acquire the ability to attack foreign bases.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
May 18, 2020
Will it deliver? Japan's embattled workers cast wary eye on anti-harassment law
Only large firms will initially be subjected to the law, and the government will not require companies to extend the measures to freelance workers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 29, 2020
Japan's farm and hotel sectors cooperate as pandemic halts entry of foreign labor
Under entry controls, 220 workers from China, Indonesia and Myanmar bound for one of the Japan's major cabbage production areas have been unable to enter the country.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 11, 2020
Tokyo Uber Eats union demands hazard pay and equipment to protect against virus
A labor union representing employees of Uber Technologies Inc.'s food delivery service Uber Eats on Friday called for hazard pay and coronavirus protection for its delivery staff on the front line of the pandemic.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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